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• Medtronic Pipeline Recall Issued After Embolization Device Linked to Injuries, Deaths

  March 19, 2025

  Darian Hauf

  Medtronic Neurovascular has issued a recall and updated instructions for two separate models of the company’s Pipeline Vantage brain aneurysm stents.

• iCast Covered Stent Recall Issued Over Separation Risks

  June 3, 2022

  Russell Maas

  Nearly 80,000 iCast covered stents are being recalled following dozens of reports of the balloon or catheter hub separating from the stent during removal.

• Vici Venous Stent Recall Follows Reports of Stent Migration

  May 24, 2021

  Martha Garcia

  Nearly 32,000 stents use to prevent blockages in the veins are being recalled due to the risk of migration and patient injury.

• Precise PRO Rx US Carotid System Recall Issued After Injuries, Reports Of Device Separation

  April 26, 2021

  Russell Maas

  A system used to place stents in patients' arteries has been recalled due to problems with the tips separating and getting lodged in patients' bodies, which can cause strokes and other serious adverse events.

• Medtronic Valiant Navion Thoracic Stent Graft System Recall Issued Due To Endoleaks and Fractures

  April 12, 2021

  Russell Maas

  The FDA has announced a Medtronic stent graft system recall after reports of malfunctions, serious injuries, and at least one death.

• Whistleblower Lawsuits May Have Helped Reduce Fraudulent Heart Stent Surgeries: Study

  September 23, 2020

  Irvin Jackson

  A new study finds that whistleblower lawsuits against doctors who performed unnecessary heart stenting procedures may have helped clamp down on cases of medical fraud.

• Ovation iX Abdominal Stent Graft Recall Issued Over Polymer Leaks

  June 17, 2020

  Russell Maas

  The FDA warns that a recalled stent graph could leak polymer into patients' bodies, posing a risk of severe injury and death.

• Heart Stents Led To More Heart Attacks, Additional Surgeries, Compared To Coronary Bypass Grafting: Study

  January 3, 2020

  Martha Garcia

  A new study finds that heart bypass surgery leads to fewer side effects and adverse events than heart stents.

• J&J Sterilmed Agilis Recall Issued Over Air Embolism Risk from Steerable Introducer Sheaths

  January 4, 2018

  Russell Maas

  The FDA has announced a recall of some cardiovascular stent sheaths which have a flaw that could result in an air embolism, putting patients at risk of serious injury or death.

• Heart Stents Do Not Ease Chest Pain, Study Warns

  November 3, 2017

  Irvin Jackson

  Coronary heart stents may not decrease chest pain for stable angina patients, which is often one of the reasons they are implanted, according to the findings of a new study.